>>Apparently you are of the view that Japan was the victim of the bad old US. In that case, I do think the US could have negotiated a peace deal that let the Japanese have Austrailia and New Zealand (you know, appeasement - that works well).

LOL. Of course Japan had definite intentions down under in WWII and it's common knowledge why they didn't succeed. Both nations down there are very well disposed towards the US. Even though the US shut NZ out of the ANZUS agreement after NZ declared itself nuclear-weapon-free. ;-) Also, and at the risk of being a stirrer: did you know that early in the jostling between the US and Japan, the US itself formulated plans to invade New Zealand? Documents to that effect were declassified in 1972 and aren't difficult to track down. ;-) At the time, Japan was an Australasian ally and even escorted troop ships heading for Gallipoli to be slaughtered by the Turkish enemy. ;-)

>>Have fun rewriting history.

LOL, you forget I'm one of the victors too. Doesn't stop me thinking about things, though, or trying to understand how things reach that point and how it might be prevented in future- something your countrymen were pretty good at in the 1930s and 1940s except for their attitude towards their ally Stalin. ;-)